I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

Communion is deeper than theology.

I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.